I still find it staggering that so many individuals and corporates are still on IE7 and even worse IE6... Sure this might be a marketing stunt, but kudos to them for drawing attention to it. The sooner IE6\7 die the better. :P

sidefx: I still find it staggering that so many individuals and corporates are still on IE7 and even worse IE6... Sure this might be a marketing stunt, but kudos to them for drawing attention to it. The sooner IE6\7 die the better. :P

I posted about this in March 2012 in my blog. Most of the visitors to Geekzone using Internet Explorer are actually on IE9 and IE8. IE7 currently are 11% and IE6 are only 1.5%.

It's known from other sources that IE6 is now almost mostly gone from most Internet facing computers.

mattwnz: I wouldn't cry if IE disappeared altogether. The number of websites that work fine in IE8, but features on them break in IE 9+ (tested on multiple computers) means that I don't use it.

i have never seen any site like this. ive been using chrome since version 2, i was using flock/firefox before that.

there use to be the occasional site that required IE (sony.co.nz being one) or something that didnt render properly. but now days i never come across a site that doesnt work in chrome.

there are plenty of webapps however that require IE, but most people never see those, and they usually do work fine in other browsers, for the most part, just havent been QA'ed for other browsers.

as a webdeveloper, supporting IE7 isnt that hard, IE6 was harder, but still, you can make the websites/webapps look ok in ie6/7 and work ok without much trouble. you only run into trouble mostly around the styling/positioning of elements, but with a little modernizr and css tricks (not hacks, theres plenty of non hacks nowdays to target a specific browser without JS) you dont really need to spend that much more time.

the last web app i did had about 10 unique pages, lots of controls/divs etc on each page, and i spent about a couple of hours making it work in IE6/7.

most things still work fine in IE7....

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